Transatlantic Farm Arguments Germany’s Greens are protesting this coming weekend over the lack of commitment to reducing farm inputs and want farming based on “socially just food security.” The EU still uses many pesticides under emergency derogations, and Brussels is being contested over its interest in New Genomic Techniques. American farmers meeting this past week in Puerto Rico came up with their response – Europe produces more emissions per unit of production, and the U.S. should expand its role as the provider of low emission food security by increasing per acre output. Trade as Leverage Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, appealed to China at this week’s Davos meeting to support her coun...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.